Crossword for Mon, 24/Aug/2009

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Across
1: In-box item

5: Curly coif

9: Dagger handle

13: Gives the heave-ho

14: ___ cheese

15: ___ firma

16: Dress design

17: Falling-out

18: Gravelly glacial ridge

19: Estranges

21: Neat freak's records

22: Burned superficially

23: Keep on dunking

25: Wager

27: Like much income

31: Diploma holder

35: Japanese honorific

37: Stole again

38: Rowed the boat

40: Smidge

42: Investigate, with 'into'

43: Worked in a salon

45: Strike

47: 'That ___ it!'

48: Mountain home of the Muses

50: Scrooge's exclamation

52: Central theme

54: Talks big

59: Caustic

62: 1000 year spans

64: 66, for one

65: Down in the dumps

66: Windshield treatment

67: Set securely (Var.)

68: Post-Mardi Gras period

69: Antsy

70: Property title

71: Units of work

72: Whitetail buck
Down
1: Biker chicks

2: Send to Siberia

3: Television and radio

4: Basketry twig

5: Scrapes

6: Act the butterfly

7: Send, as to a specialist

8: Beginning

9: Paused

10: Cumbersome boats

11: Neck line?

12: Sailors

15: Sent a message the old-fashioned way

20: Lincoln loc.

24: Mindless card game

26: Small amount

28: New Mexico necktie

29: All-conquering emotion

30: Barely manages, with 'out'

31: 'Zounds!'

32: Miles per hour, e.g.

33: Chemical group derived from benzene

34: Set the boundaries of

36: 'Uh uh'

39: Figured out, as secret writing

41: Chest protector

44: Morse code component

46: Writing pads

49: Like a nursery-rhyme Jack

51: Garden tool

53: Office worker, at times

55: Paid to play

56: Insinuatingly spoken

57: Slight degree

58: Woodland deity

59: Like the Atacama

60: Arrive

61: Yokel

63: It's involved in inspiration




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